(1) The very first collection we worked on together was called The Birds, and when he got the Givenchy job and we went to Paris, and he got to see what the Givenchy ateliers could do with feathers, he was just blown away.” The photographer Anne Deniau, who took many portraits of McQueen and whose camera was from 1997 to 2010 the only one allowed backstage at McQueen shows, felt that he loved “the lightness, the delicacy, of feathers.
(2) Slimane is famous for his ultra-slim proportions, but his clothes are surprisingly wearable due to the atelier's workers' ability to scale up size without ruining proportions.
(3) But even these posters included barbed jokes, such as the atelier’s design in response to General de Gaulle’s remark that one of the uprising’s leaders, Danny Cohn-Bendit, was “a German Jew”.
(4) When Slimane worked at the house in the 90s, it had a menswear atelier established by Yves in the 60s.
(5) Currently being restored to its 17th-century glory, Hôtel de Sénecterre will house a couture atelier and a salon.
(6) "We are so passionate about what we do and it's so important that we have established a couture-standard atelier in Britain."
(7) This article was amended on 2 September 2014, as the dress designer was incorrectly credited to Atelier Versace rather than Donatella Versace
(8) On the serious side, Atelier Populaire produced silkscreens that rank alongside Russian constructivist posters of the 1920s as the greatest political artwork of the 20th century; their image of the factory with a chimney from which a fist rises, reading “ La lutte continue ” – “the struggle continues” – is a masterpiece.
(9) There was a similar vibe at Atelier Celadon ( atelier-celadon.com ), at 40 rue Sainte Françoise, where not only can you browse and buy beautiful contemporary glass, ceramics, and astonishingly expressive mosaics, you can take courses in these three media too.
(10) James Paterson, the first of them to study in France, reached his Paris atelier in 1876.
(11) The two main Parisian art schools had combined to form the Atelier Populaire, producing hundreds of silk-screened images in what Kurlanksy describes as 'one of the most impressive outpourings of political graphic art ever accomplished'.
(12) Photograph: Caters News Agency Though other architects have experimented with trampolines – recently, architects Atelier Zündel Cristea proposed an inflatable bridge made up of three connected trampolines for a competition to design a bridge in Paris – Fast Track is certainly more sensitive to its forest environment than a road.
(13) In the second grid, which is specific for teaching capacities, more precise criteria are suggested to characterize a teaching profile in various ways, such as finishing and updating experience in ateliers, familiarity with teaching instruments, use of articulated teaching methods and the possibility of assessment by students through questionnaires.
(14) He moved to the heart of Italian fashion, Milan, in his late teens, worked in the atelier of a designer called Giorgio Correggiari and there met graphic design student Gabbana, who was keen to break into fashion.
(15) What she has done, in the past seven years, is turn Burberry from a label that had become associated with baseball caps worn in nightclubs to the biggest British high-fashion brand, which ranks alongside anything the ateliers of Paris and Milan have to offer.
(16) The idea that manipulating code to make clothes fit the human form is a new couture skill may take designers and their ateliers of seamstresses some time to get their heads around.
(17) For the 62-year-old framer, working out of a two-room atelier in Athens’ upscale Kolonaki district, the downturn feels anything but over and he counts himself lucky: he still has a job and a few customers to boot.
(18) One Central Park by French design group Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Australia’s PTW, beat 87 other international entries to top the list, and was commended for its visible use of green design.
(19) The restructuring of the couture ateliers have been the least visible but most significant element of the reform.
(20) Drawing on Saint Laurent's tailoring traditions and his own expertise, Slimane created a new atelier.
Bespoke
Definition:
(imp.) of Bespeak
(p. p.) of Bespeak
() imp. & p. p. of Bespeak.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
(2) Undoubtedly chosen to represent British fashion while honouring Canada’s national colours, it was a bespoke version of a dress from McQueen’s resort collection.
(3) Bringing together specialisms including creative, design, media planning and buying, content, social, PR, influencer marketing, experiential, data analytics and CRM, The&Partnership also leads bespoke new-model agency offerings for clients including News UK, The Wall Street Journal, TalkTalk, TELUS and Toyota.
(4) Side-entrance shame The brochure for the upmarket apartments of One Commercial Street, on the edge of the City, boasts of a "bespoke entrance lobby ... With the ambience of a stylish hotel reception area, it creates a stylish yet secure transition space between your home and the City streets".
(5) Adrian Clark, style director of Shortlist , is throwing a trailer-trash curveball: "a pair of vintage black leather Versace jeans with zips – wrong in all the right ways – Gucci biker boots and bespoke tailoring by Gieves & Hawkes , Richard James and Mr Start".
(6) Going under the name Michael Green and casting himself as an internet marketing guru, Shapps in 2007 claimed audiences could "make $20,000 in 20 days guaranteed or your money back" – if they spent $200 buying his bespoke software.
(7) A briefing stressed that curbing migration is a red line, and that Britain is not interested in an off-the-shelf deal with Europe but a bespoke one.
(8) Referee Mark Clattenberg leads them out on to the Villa Park sward, where the match-ball is waiting on a bespoke Premier League plinth.
(9) In Whitehall jargon, the deals are “bespoke” – in short, varying in significant details – with Greater Manchester getting responsibility for a £6bn budget to integrate health and social care .
(10) Since then the company has moved to Woodland Hills, and into a cavernous bespoke building, designed to accommodate the huge development teams that a game of this size requires.
(11) The witching-hour timing bespoke both political calculation and personal angst.
(12) Founded in the 1990s by Jimmy Choo, a Malaysian bespoke shoemaker, and the British designer Tamara Mellon, the firm went through the hands of several private equity firms before JAB bought the brand for more than £500m in 2011.
(13) The Who's pioneering instrument-smasher could find he's met his match with one of the bespoke nylon-bodied guitars made by Olaf Diegel, professor of mechatronics at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand.
(14) For Simon and his family it has been a happy ending; he is living close to home with a bespoke service, matched to his needs, within a house well connected to local facilities and neighbours.
(15) A great example of this is the Hearing Dogs for Deaf People campaign that offered a variety of rewards , such as a company away day at their beautiful HQ in Buckinghamshire, a bespoke pub quiz and personalised thank-you cards to raise funds to buy a new PupMobile for their charity.
(16) They flew in on a private Boeing 777 airliner complete with customised "Panda Express" livery; a bespoke cuisine of bamboo, apples, carrots and specially prepared "panda cake"; and private suites of Perspex and steel.
(17) An impenetrable wall of bespoke tailoring standing between him and power.
(18) Now we do bespoke designs for people, like a red devil fighting with the moon."
(19) Moyes has installed a bespoke facility that houses whiteboards, computers, high-definition screens, iPads and other state-of-the-art digital technology at United's training ground.
(20) Warp Records would be home to a new, bespoke, Meccano-like strain of home-built techno.